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The three-year contract, effective immediately, will see Wood Group add up to 200 new jobs at contract peak to support the three platform, high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) development.

Dave Stewart, chief executive of Wood Group’s Asset Life Cycle Solutions business in the Eastern region, said: “Maersk’s decision to award us this new contract to support them in this significant North Sea development reflects their confidence and assurance in our ability to deliver our broad technical solutions safely, efficiently and effectively.

“We will bring our strong, global experience and expertise in the execution of hooks-ups to the project, where our focus will be working in close collaboration with Maersk towards its successful delivery.”

Aberdeen oil and gas services firm Bilfinger Salamis UK announced last month it would add up to 300 new North Sea jobs on a short-term basis after securing the fabric maintenance contract during the preparation and installation of the Culzean platform.

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Development work on the massive Culzean gas discovery started in April of last year and the field is expected to go into production in 2019.

The £3 billion development, led by Danish oil giant Maersk with partners JX Nippon and BP (Britoil), secured UK Government approval in 2015.

Culzean was discovered in 2008 and has estimated reserves of 250 billion barrels of oil equivalent.

The field is expected will meet around five per cent of the UK's annual gas demand when its reaches peak production.

Field development will benefit from the High Pressure/High Temperature (HPHT) Cluster Area Allowance introduced in the 2015 Budget.

The allowance was introduced as a measure to reduces the amount of adjusted ring fence profits subject to the Supplementary Charge on oil profits which was cut from 20 per cent to 10 per cent above corporation tax in the 2016 Budget and backdated to January 1, 2016.